Special characters

When you are creating text items or instruction pages, some characters require special
treatment. For example, imagine that you are creating a text stimulus that contains
quotes. Quotes play a special role in Inquisit syntax of marking the beginning and
the end of a stimulus item, so Inquisit needs away to distinguish quotes that are
part of the item from those that indicate the beginning and end. If a quote is preceded
by the escape character '~', this tells Inquisit that the quote is not a delimiter,
but should be included in the item.

The following text stimulus, however, will result in a warning that there is extra
text at the end of the item definition because the quotes are treated as markers
of the beginning and end of the item: